|
November 8, 2009
Who is Shyster?Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Rob Neyer, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT.
 Plus our Statistical Definitions Monthly Archives
November, 2009
October, 2009 September, 2009 August, 2009 July, 2009 June, 2009 May, 2009 April, 2009 March, 2009 February, 2009 January, 2009 December, 2008 November, 2008
Or you can search by:
Gear up for baseball season with Chicago White Sox tickets and New York Yankees tickets. LA Angels tickets, Houston Astros tickets, and Atlanta Braves tickets are hot sellers! You can get Boston Red Sox tickets, San Diego Padres tickets or Chicago Cubs tickets for your favorite baseball fan. Coast to Coast Tickets has the best MLB tickets like Minnesota Twins tickets, LA Dodgers tickets, Milwaukee Brewers tickets, New York Met tickets and St. Louis Cardinals tickets. Find premium Chicago Cubs tickets and other Chicago tickets at JustGreatTickets.com. Chicago Cubs Tickets Chicago Tickets  All content on this site (including text, graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Most Recent Comments
The Nats lay people off (2)
Great Moments in Plagiarization (5) McCourt Update (2) My Morning in Exile (10) Deep Thoughts: Tim Lincecum Edition (26) Shyster's Daily Circuit
Rob Neyer
AaronGleeman.com Joe Posnanski Blog Baseball Analysts Baseball Musings Cot's Baseball Contracts It IS About the Money Keith Law Cardboard Gods Baseball Think Factory MLB Trade Rumors Retrosheet Vegas Watch Way Back and Gone Bats -- NYT Baseball Blog The Biz of Baseball The Daily Fungo U.S.S. Mariner Braves Journal Scott Simkus The Common Man Jorge Says No! Baseball Over Here Fack Youk Wezen-Ball Chop-n-Change |
Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Monday, January 12, 2009The clock strikes 11 for Roger ClemensIn my past life (read: the job I had until a little over a week ago) I occasionally represented clients who were subject to federal criminal investigations. All of these guys were under the microscope for a year or more, having their records subpoenaed, having their phones tapped, and having their friends and neighbors interviewed by IRS and FBI agents. I'd try to keep tabs of the investigations as best I could, occasionally even calling the U.S. Attorney or an agent to try and figure out what, if anything, was going on. Mostly, however, we heard silence from the government.I later learned that the silence was a good thing in that you usually heard the leaks and the crowing when the feds started getting comfy with the idea of indicting your client's butt. Kind of like what we're hearing from the team investigating Roger Clemens now: A federal grand jury has convened in Washington, D.C., to determine whether to indict seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for lying under oath to Congress when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs, ESPN.com has learned. Ya never do. Here's a fun passage from the story: Barry Bonds, a seven-time MVP, was indicted last year on perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from his 2003 grand jury testimony in which he denied knowingly taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds is scheduled for trial this March in San Francisco. Perjury ain't exactly murder one, but companion Bonds-Clemens trials would be absolutely huge, if for no other reason than it will totally kill the MLB-backed narrative that the Mitchell Report marked the end of the Steroid Era. Sure, the Barry Bonds trial has been on the docket for a long time, but there's something dissatisfying about making him the sole repository for anti-PED sentiment. There's personal baggage for one thing in that since everyone hated him when he played, there will always be a sense that to kill Barry any more than he has already been killed is piling on. There's also the issue of race which, while I don't see any relevance, causes many people to pull their punches, I think. Pair Bonds' trial with Clemens, however, and a much more appealing narrative emerges. One in which all of baseball's sins can be more conveniently piled on Bonds' and Clemens' shoulders. One in which hitter is paired with pitcher, villain paired with (until recently) hero. Black paired with white. It's a story that most writers and historians will be unable to resist. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 2:07pm Comments
Pete Toms said...
I think you are referencing the Mike Fish piece at ESPN today? If yes, I thought this quote was interesting. “A retired FBI agent said that perjury cases involving high-profile defendants are becoming more common, telling ESPN.com: “It used to be we didn’t mess with these kinds of cases. Everybody lied to us. Then, they got Martha Stewart on lying, and it became the flavor of the month.” As for Bonds and race. A Seton Hall poll ( I’m in too big a hurry to look up when it was released ) revealed that there is/was a HUGE difference between how African Americans and non African Americans viewed this. Posted 01/12 at 04:47 PM
Scott said...
Congrats on your career move. Looking forward to more posts. Posted 01/12 at 11:15 PM
Page 1 of 1
Tell the Shyster what you think:Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.Next Post: Rickey and Rice>> <<Previous Post: Cuba has a Bob Feller Too | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hey, if Congress can prosecute players for lying to them, why can’t we prosecute Congress for lying to us?
I’m willing to chip for a lawyer for that.